[Rory McNeil]

Like Jim said, the tracks on the West coast are pretty spread out. I live near Vancouver BC Canada, about an hour from Mission Raceway, Pacific and Bremerton are 3 1/2-4 hours away each, Woodburn Oregon is about 6 1/2 hours, Boise ID is about 12 hours. Here in Div. 6, the Seattle National event , at 3 1/2 hours is not too bad, BUT, my next "closest" National event is Sonoma CA, about 20 hours 1 way. If a Div 6 racer wants to get his allotted quota of Nat`l events, he either has to travel to California, Arizona, and Nevada twice, early and late in the season. Thats a lot of travel time and days off, not to mention fuel costs.
By comparison, I recently spent 8 days in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. In that short tme, I visited 5 drag strips (Maple Grove, Beaver Springs,Numidia, Atco, and South Mountain), all within about 2 hours of each other. And a racer told me that if you allowed a 3 hour tow, there were 2 more tracks nearby! Envious, you bet!